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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

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Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]